Mechanism of epithelial‐mesenchymal transition in cancer and its regulation by natural compounds

HL Ang, CD Mohan, MK Shanmugam… - Medicinal research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Epithelial‐mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a complex process with a primordial role in
cellular transformation whereby an epithelial cell transforms and acquires a mesenchymal …

How the Warburg effect supports aggressiveness and drug resistance of cancer cells?

P Icard, S Shulman, D Farhat, JM Steyaert… - Drug Resistance …, 2018 - Elsevier
Cancer cells employ both conventional oxidative metabolism and glycolytic anaerobic
metabolism. However, their proliferation is marked by a shift towards increasing glycolytic …

Targeting EMT in cancer with repurposed metabolic inhibitors

V Ramesh, T Brabletz, P Ceppi - Trends in cancer, 2020 - cell.com
Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) determines the most lethal features of cancer,
metastasis formation and chemoresistance, and therefore represents an attractive target in …

Effect of tumor microenvironment on pathogenesis of the head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: a systematic review

B Peltanova, M Raudenska, M Masarik - Molecular cancer, 2019 - Springer
The tumor microenvironment (TME) is comprised of many different cell populations, such as
cancer-associated fibroblasts and various infiltrating immune cells, and non-cell …

[HTML][HTML] The glycolytic switch in tumors: how many players are involved?

L Yu, X Chen, X Sun, L Wang, S Chen - Journal of Cancer, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Reprogramming of cellular metabolism is a hallmark of cancers. Cancer cells more readily
use glycolysis, an inefficient metabolic pathway for energy metabolism, even when sufficient …

Spatial transcriptomics reveals distinct and conserved tumor core and edge architectures that predict survival and targeted therapy response

R Arora, C Cao, M Kumar, S Sinha, A Chanda… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The spatial organization of the tumor microenvironment has a profound impact on biology
and therapy response. Here, we perform an integrative single-cell and spatial transcriptomic …

Cancer: the dark side of wound healing

GM Sundaram, S Quah, P Sampath - The FEBS journal, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Complex multicellular organisms have evolved sophisticated mechanisms to rapidly resolve
epithelial injuries. Epithelial integrity is critical to maintaining internal homeostasis. An …

[HTML][HTML] Tumor associated macrophages induce epithelial to mesenchymal transition via the EGFR/ERK1/2 pathway in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

L Gao, W Zhang, WQ Zhong, ZJ Liu… - Oncology …, 2018 - spandidos-publications.com
The development of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is closely
associated with inflammation. Tumor associated macrophages (TAMs), the largest …

Roles of farnesyl-diphosphate farnesyltransferase 1 in tumour and tumour microenvironments

NT Ha, CH Lee - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Farnesyl-diphosphate farnesyltransferase 1 (FDFT1, squalene synthase), a membrane-
associated enzyme, synthesizes squalene via condensation of two molecules of farnesyl …

Tanshinone IIA inhibits oral squamous cell carcinoma via reducing Akt-c-Myc signaling-mediated aerobic glycolysis

M Li, F Gao, Q Zhao, H Zuo, W Liu, W Li - Cell Death & Disease, 2020 - nature.com
Aerobic glycolysis is one of the hallmarks of human cancer cells. Overexpression of
hexokinase 2 (HK2) plays a crucial role in the maintaining of unlimited tumor cell growth. In …